REPORTED DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN WAIHEKI.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 599, 10 January 1852, Page 3

REPORTED DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN WAIHEKI.

Grevt excitement has been produced in our good town by a statement that gold had been found at VVaiheki, an Island within about twenty miles of Auckland. v etting aside the thousaud-and-one rumours which have been put in ci! ailation on the subject, the ascertained facts can be told in a very few woids. On Tuesday a boat belonging to Her Majesty's BugdtiUne Bramble ainved, bunging an Offici.il Repoit— not that gold actually had been fouml — but that something had been found which the fmuYis believed to be <*old. H M.S Calliope, which was jnst then aboi-t to sail foi Welbngior.h a inn Ihs Excellency L'eut -Gov. Winyaru oh boaul, was to call at Watheki,

fir uaer, and immediately piocceded thither. No authentic account has since reached us. Although we confess our own expectations that the HaUcring repoit would have a golden lcalization ueio not as sanguine as there of: sonic of our neighbours, yet a gentleman fiom this office proceeded e<uly yestetday morning to W aiheki, for the pin pose >J smiling foi our piesent issue infoimation on which reliance might be placed. But owing probably to the stormy and contrary state of the weather he had not letumed at the hour at which we are obliged to go to press. In the course of this day it is most likely that many of our readers will be in possession of repoils from the spot which will be, in some measure, conclusive, and we judge it most prudent and titling torefiain ftom offering any opinion wi en we could not at best go beyond conjectuie. The chance of the rumours being venfied, however, was sufficient to induce a considerable number of our enterprising townsmen to set out last night, amidst thunder, lightning, and fain, to u see the elephant" for, themselves — ifiheij could.

It is with gratification that we observe so much attention turned at present to tlic importance of the erection of a Government House in Auckland. It is an object which every well-visher of the Province must earnestly desire to see accomplished, and on the accomplishment of which may not imjn'obably hinge the decision whether Auckland shall or shall not be the usual residence of the GovEiufOK-iK-Cincr of the Colony, — whether it shall be substantially and beneficially, as well as nominally, the Seat of Government. Indeed the reasons for employing every effort to secure the speedy commencement of the imdertaking are so obvious, that it must be wholly unnecessary to point them out in detail. The practical question of coiirse is, Where are the requisite Funds to be obtained ? We have heard it suggested — and we think the suggestion entitled to all attention — that a portion of the Parliamentary Grant of the late Session might be most properly appropriated to this purpose, and that the Governor-in-Ciiiee 1 should be memorialized to authorize such an appropriation. If this plan be deemed advisable, there is no time to be lost in adopting it. The general object is one in which our Municipal Authorities and the public at largo have a direct concern, and which, (like the protest against the New Zealand Company's claim) might have the advantage of combining all parties and classes in an ixnion of judgment and effort.

Outrage. — We are informed that, on Friday night last, some ruflian3 broke no less than twenty panes of glass in the Scotch Church, dashing largu pieces of scoria through the windows. Beyond the general supposition that they were returning drunk from the races, there is as yet vo clue to the parties ; but it is greatly to be wished that the perpetrators of this cowardly and disgraceful outrage on a place of worship may be discovered and punished. Auckland Corporation. The Common Council will meet for public business this day, at three o'clock, p.m.